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Economics / deficits, Economics, fiscal policy, GDP, Obama, republican party /

Ryan Republican Rubbish

April 6, 2011

The three “R”‘s: Reading, ‘riting, ‘rithmetic. Or as of today: Ryan’s Republican Rubbish. The budget proposal unveiled with great fanfare by the Republican leadership is a farce. The numbers are so other worldly it takes a great deal of effort to keep a straight face. I still harbor doubts about its intent. I wonder whether […]

Commentary, Economics /

Economics and Government Shut Down

April 5, 2011

Brinkmanship? Lunacy? Farce? All of the above? I really don’t know what to make of a country that applauds its own self-destructive spiral. America seems hell bent on undermining itself. Its leadership, if that word is any longer appropriate, lurches from press comment, to media circus, to sound bite, to Sunday morning TV round tables, […]

Commentary, Economics, Politics / bank reform, Bush, deficits, health care, Obama, Reagan /

The 2012 Election, A Health Care Debate?

April 4, 2011

America’s interminable election process kicks into gear once again. We are hardly over the 2010 mid-term election cycle and we are already plunging into next year’s presidential election campaign. It never ends. Which is why our governance is frayed around the edges. With everyone constantly running for election our representatives hardly have time to give […]